Word: listlessness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Springfield took a one-sided game played at Soldiers Field on April 19. Listless fielding and ineffective pitching again brought about the defeat of the University. The Crimson defense showed a tendency towards "bad, innings" in which many mishaps and mistakes in judgment gave the visitors many unearned tallies...
...Freshman nine went down to defeat at the hands of the hard-hitting Middlesex nine at Concord yesterday by the score of 6-3. Listless fielding coupled with the inability to bunch their hits, was the dominant factor in the Freshmen's defeat. The school team's third baseman, Carnegie, was the star of the game...
...Getting by" is the advance poster of this lassitude. The expression "contains as much moral poison as a two-word phrase can hold", and it aims to dull the conscience into accepting the kind of listless existence it signifies. The man who says he is "getting by" is merely drifting with the current into the sea of oblivion. When the fighting spirit of races as well as of individuals runs low rapid degeneration inevitably follows. And when high resolve and constant initiative relax their powers, then the loser is morally poor indeed; for he has dropped out of the race...
Colonel Applin saw the Regiment only when we were leaving Fresh Pond to return to Cambridge. He could see then, as I did myself, that the manual of arms was somewhat listless, that our band played, with an irregular rhythm, tunes of a rather funereal character, and that the marching lacked energy and snap. These criticisms do not surprise me at all: I expressed them many times after each exercise, and especially at the beginning of a recent lecture...
...yesterday, Team A reversed Tuesday's verdict, when the substitutes secured a 4 to 1 victory by defeating Team B by a score of 10 to 6 in a contest replete with both errors and hits. Both teams suffered from the absence of several players and gave a somewhat listless exhibition. Captain Abbot officiated as umpire and Casey and Murray were unable to report, but will be back for today's workout. Phinney, who has been substituting with Murray at third base, was not on the field, and may leave the squad permanently in order to join the Naval Reserve...